Question 1

What two different types of locomotion were australopithecines using in East Africa?

Accepted Answer

A) One was a quadruped and the other a leaper. 
B) One was a clinger and the other a climber. 
C) One was a knuckle walker and the other a quadruped. 
D) One was a climber and the other more of a biped. 
A) One was a quadruped and the other a leaper. 
B) One was a clinger and the other a climber. 
C) One was a knuckle walker and the other a quadruped. 
D) One was a climber and the other more of a biped.

Question 2

What was one of the first recognizable ancestors of the lineage leading to humans?

Accepted Answer

A) Australopithecus afarensis 
B) Paranthropus 
C) Sahelanthropus tchandensis 
D) Orrorin tugenensis 
A) Australopithecus afarensis 
B) Paranthropus 
C) Sahelanthropus tchandensis 
D) Orrorin tugenensis

Question 3

At the Bouri site in Ethiopia,what did paleoanthropologists find accompanying the fossils attributed to Australopithecus garhi?

Accepted Answer

A) abundant stone tools 
B) animal bones with cutmarks 
C) evidence for early Homo 
D) fossil footprints 
A) abundant stone tools 
B) animal bones with cutmarks 
C) evidence for early Homo 
D) fossil footprints

Question 4

What is the only pre-australopithecine found outside the East African Rift Valley?

Accepted Answer

A) Orrorin tugenensis 
B) Ardipithecus kadabba 
C) Sahelanthropus tchadensis 
D) Ardipithecus ramidus 
A) Orrorin tugenensis 
B) Ardipithecus kadabba 
C) Sahelanthropus tchadensis 
D) Ardipithecus ramidus

Question 5

What does the patchy forest hypothesis propose?

Accepted Answer

A) Forests became patchy and food more dispersed. 
B) Forests became lush woodlands. 
C) Forests became wet and swamplike. 
D) Forests did not change. 
A) Forests became patchy and food more dispersed. 
B) Forests became lush woodlands. 
C) Forests became wet and swamplike. 
D) Forests did not change.

Question 6

What time period does the Oldowan Complex fall under?

Accepted Answer

A) the Upper Paleolithic 
B) the Lower Paleolithic 
C) the Eocene 
D) the Solutrean 
A) the Upper Paleolithic 
B) the Lower Paleolithic 
C) the Eocene 
D) the Solutrean

Question 7

Darwin's hunting hypothesis,Rodman and McHenry's patchy forest hypothesis,and Lovejoy's provisioning hypothesis are three very different explanations for the rise of hominins,but all three invoke the same anatomical feature. What feature is this?

Accepted Answer

A) bipedalism 
B) loss of diastema 
C) increased brain size 
D) changes in the hand that allow tool making and use 
A) bipedalism 
B) loss of diastema 
C) increased brain size 
D) changes in the hand that allow tool making and use

Question 8

Hominins have canines that are:

Accepted Answer

A) small,blunt,and nonprojecting,with no diastema. 
B) large and pointed,with a diastema. 
C) projecting,with a diastema. 
D) part of a honing complex. 
A) small,blunt,and nonprojecting,with no diastema. 
B) large and pointed,with a diastema. 
C) projecting,with a diastema. 
D) part of a honing complex.

Question 9

Which of the following is a derived trait of Sahelanthropus tchandensis?

Accepted Answer

A) big toe opposability 
B) larger body size 
C) length of the calcaneus 
D) nonhoning chewing complex 
A) big toe opposability 
B) larger body size 
C) length of the calcaneus 
D) nonhoning chewing complex

What two different types of locomotion were australopithecines using in East Africa?

What was one of the first recognizable ancestors of the lineage leading to humans?

At the Bouri site in Ethiopia,what did paleoanthropologists find accompanying the fossils attributed to Australopithecus garhi?

What is the only pre-australopithecine found outside the East African Rift Valley?

What does the patchy forest hypothesis propose?

What time period does the Oldowan Complex fall under?

Darwin's hunting hypothesis,Rodman and McHenry's patchy forest hypothesis,and Lovejoy's provisioning hypothesis are three very different explanations for the rise of hominins,but all three invoke the same anatomical feature. What feature is this?

Hominins have canines that are:

Which of the following is a derived trait of Sahelanthropus tchandensis?

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Exam 10: Early Hominin Origins and Evolution: The Roots of Humanity

What two different types of locomotion were australopithecines using in East Africa?

What was one of the first recognizable ancestors of the lineage leading to humans?

At the Bouri site in Ethiopia,what did paleoanthropologists find accompanying the fossils attributed to Australopithecus garhi?

What is the only pre-australopithecine found outside the East African Rift Valley?

What does the patchy forest hypothesis propose?

What time period does the Oldowan Complex fall under?

Darwin's hunting hypothesis,Rodman and McHenry's patchy forest hypothesis,and Lovejoy's provisioning hypothesis are three very different explanations for the rise of hominins,but all three invoke the same anatomical feature. What feature is this?

Hominins have canines that are:

Which of the following is a derived trait of Sahelanthropus tchandensis?

What Is Physical Anthropology?

Evolution: Constructing a Fundamental Scientific Theory

Genetics: Reproducing Life and Producing Variation

Genes and Their Evolution: Population Genetics

Biology in the Present: Living People

Biology in the Present: The Other Living Primates

Primate Sociality, social Behavior, and Culture

Fossils and Their Place in Time and Nature

Primate Origins and Evolution: The First 50 Million Years

The Origins and Evolution of Early Homo

The Origins,evolution,and Dispersal of Modern People

The Past 10, 000 Years: Agriculture, population, biology

Evolution: Today and Tomorrow

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